These trails connect the lake and its surrounding forests and fields to a number of amenities, including a boat launch, picnic sites, a playground, washrooms, the Burnaby Art Gallery, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby Village Museum, and Century Gardens, as well as the surrounding community and long trails for walking.

Burnaby Village Museum contains a combination of heritage and replica buildings depicting life in the region in the 1920s, and includes the vintage C. W. Parker Carousel.

There are several works of public art in the park, including sculpture by Thomas Cannell, Bodo Pfeifer, Nathan Lee, and Keith Rice-Jones.

The vegetation natural to the area is temperate rainforest dominated by conifers such as Tsuga heterophylla, Pseudotsuga menziesii, and Thuja plicata.

[4] While rainbow trout, sculpin, and crayfish were likely native to Deer Lake, most of the aquatic animals are introduced species.